St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-01
ENGLISH POLITICS.
The Conservatives will Push Their
Grimes Bill in the Commons.

GRIMES Bill In the Go IN mons
LONDON, March 31.-At the meeting of
the Conservative party to-day it was de-
cided that the house OF commons shall sit
until the Irish criminal law amendment
bill has passed its second reading, and that
the only adjournment to be taken at Easter
shall be from Thursday next to the follow
ing Tuesday Two hundred members OF
parliament attended. The meeting enthu-
saStically supported the decision of William
Henry Smith, the Conservative leader in
the house of commons, to have a division
tomorrow night on Mr.. Parnells amend
ment to the Irish crimes act.
THE LIBERAL UNIoNIsTs.
Lord Harrington, at a meeting to-day of
the Liberal union members of both houses
OF parliament, explained that the govern
ment had made the Irish crimes act amend
ment bill question of confidence. and said
that if the Liberal unionists failed to sup
port the bill and in that way brought about
its defeat the result would be the advent Of
MIR. Gladstone to power. 1t was the inl-
peratiye duty of the Liberal unionsts to
prevent this, Lord Harrington commended.
The meeting decided to support the bill.
Rt Hon. Edward Heneage, member of
the house of commons for Great Grimsby,
In the Liberal union meeting to-day opposed
that part of the Irish criminal law amend
ment bill which changes the venue in Ger
tain classes of criminal trials to England.
Hr. Heneage was supported in this opposi-
ton by several others. Sir Edward Will
lam Watkin. member for Hythe, said he
| thought coercion was needed in Ireland re-
CARELESS OF remedial legislation. Joseph
Chamberlain demurred to this, and con-
tended that remedial measures should be at
least implied in Irish legislation Lord
harrington appealed TO the members of the
Liberal union party to support the govern
ment on the second reading of the bill,
reserving the liberty to amend it in COM
mittee. This the meeting agreed to- The
hall was crowded, Among those present
were Mr.. Chamberlain and Baron Roth
schild. The meeting, with the exception of
two diSsentlents, unanimously adopted Lord
Hartington'S proposal that the Liberal
unionists support the first reading of the
crimes bill, on condition that members be
allowed to critiZise the measure in COM
mittee., Mr.. Chamberlain approved the
proposal.
IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS,
tonight, Earl CARDIGAN, Conservative pre-
scented bill providing for the purchase of
Irish holdings, or. in other words, for the
abolition of the system of dual ownership
created by the act of 1881. 1t was pro-
posed, he said to admit leaseholders to
the benefits of the act Of 1881. CHEERS
The leaseholders whose leases expired prior
to 1881 Numbering 160, 0O0) were to be adj
mitted to the benefits of the act of 1881 in
the same manner as those whose leases ex-
pired in that year. 1t was also proposed
that landlord must issue notice, in the
forms scheduled in the bill, when he OBJ
tains an ejectment writ from the court. and
that he be required to serve the tenant with
that notice in the manner prescribed by the
courts, either by serving or by posting, SO
that when the tenant receives this notice he
shall become ipso facto care-taker of his
holding for the period of six months, and
that the redemption shall run so from that
date. Earl Cardigan hoped that the house
would accept the measure.
The cabinet has decided to abandon that
clause of the Irish criminal law amendment
bill which provides for the changing of the
venue from Dublin to England in certain
classes of criminal trials, thus practically
removing the greatest cause of the Liberal
unioniStS opposition to the BILL The
National Liberal federation has issued a
summons for meeting to be held April 6.
for the purpose of denouncing the proposed
Irish coercion measure.
in the house of commons tonight, said the
disorders IN Ireland were due to execrable
laws and the governments defiance of the
wishes of the people. The Conservatives
seemed unable to understand that they were
dealing with nation entitled to make its
own laws, not with individuals The ter
rorism and cutlery which flourished in the
Southern states during Andrew Johnson's
time ceased in '76, when home rule was
granted. The speaker tainted Bal
four with ignorance of the condition
of Ireland. He said Balfour hardly cared
what measure ne proposed. He denounced
the partisan Irish judges for making exct-
ing political harangues when there hap
pened to be judgeship vacant. As re-
garded the proposal to make the crimes bill
permanent measure. if that were done
the bill never would be abrogated. as the
majority of the members of the house of
lords We're Salisbury's subservient political
slaves. The speaker interposed, and La
bouchere modified his expression.